High severity · published Aug 30, 2018
CVE-2018-14621
An infinite loop vulnerability was found in libtirpc before version 1.0.2-rc2
7.5
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An infinite loop vulnerability was found in libtirpc before version 1.0.2-rc2. With the port to using poll rather than select, exhaustion of file descriptors would cause the server to enter an infinite loop, consuming a large amount of CPU time and denying service to other clients until restarted.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Libtirpc · Libtirpc Project
through 1.0.1; 1.0.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14621
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14621
git.linux-nfs.org
http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fce98161d9815ea016855d9f00274276452c2c4b
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968175
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14621
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